Interesting Links for 28-10-2011

[andrewducker]

• French government 'banning vegetarianism' in school canteens
  (tags: food france vegetarianism )
• Wheat is EVIL. Apparently.
  (tags: wheat gluten weight diet food health )
• Samuel L. Jackson Is the highest-grossing actor of all time.
  (tags: SamuelLJackson movies money )
• Sentencing laws: Mandatory life and public protection. A difficult balancing act
  (tags: crime law prison uk mentalhealth )
• Livejournal apparently having massive privacy/security issues right now.
  (tags: privacy security livejournal )
• An explanation of the latest Livejournal security/privacy mess.
  (tags: livejournal security privacy )
• Ex-Prime Minster's claim £1.7million for "public duties".
  (tags: expenses politics margaretthatcher tonyblair money )
• Company makes children's toys out of their own drawings. Almost offensively cute.
  (tags: toys children art toy )
• Google's latest response on pseudonyms on G+
  (tags: google googleplus pseudonymity )
• Google+ is now available with Google Apps (migration tool coming soon)
  migration
  (tags: google googleplus )
• Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone sales. We'll see how they are once the 4S figures come in.
  (tags: Apple iphone mobile Samsung smartphone )
• How the new public sector pensions will work
  (tags: pensions uk )
• UK clocks change trial being considered - moving us onto Central European Time.
  (tags: time europe uk )
• Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality
  (tags: police google video freespeech )
• Wired Readers Suggest The Greatest Geek Books of All Time. They are clearly old.
  (tags: geeks books wired )
• Directors' pay rose 50% in past year.
  (tags: inequality Pay uk business )

Comments

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand the stupidity at Google. Being sort of socially clueless is no surprise, but technically?
Real Names Only is simply impossible. It cannot be implemented. duh

[fearmeforiampink]

But if they can get 90-95% of their userbase using their real names, then those people are more attractive to Google's advertisers.

[andrewducker]

I'm still not convinced by that. Knowing my habits is definitely useful to the advertisers - they have a better chance of telling which adverts will appeal to me more. I can't see what my name ads to that.

[naath.livejournal.com]

How does the name-on-my-passport help advertisers? Sure they want to know what kinds of things I buy/read/look-at/want/need so they can try to sell me those things rather than things I hate... but other than mugs-with-my-name-on (and I'd prefer "naath" to my 'legal' name in that case) where does my "real" name come into it??